San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-08-25
EDITORIAL BREvITIES.

The knOw-nothing party should elect
Ives president. He does not even know
where the account books OF his office
are.
RUssA's opposition to Ferdinand's
occupancy OF the throne OF Bulgaria has
had its effect upon Turkey and the Porte
has informed that young gentleman that
he has been entirely too previous In
taking his seat without asking permits
sion.
The railroad smashes continue TO at
tract attention by their alarming ire
quency, confirming the saying OF the old
tar, that ships deck was after all the
safest place in the world. This Observa-
ton will lose no force from the news
wired yesterday OF the safe arrival In
port Ofthe,losl passengers OF the Inflated
city OF Montreal.
The recent rains have not benefited
corn in Illinois The bloom was OIL the
tassel and the tassel dead before the rain
came, and there was nothing TO germi-
nate grains OF corn from. IL Will save
what was not dead, and make fodder
and grass, nothing more. The corn has
good growth but has no ear.
The returns OF the English war office,
recruiting department, show marked
deterioration in the English lower
classes during the last quarter OF CEN
tury. The reflections for physics dis
qualifications during lS60-G4 were 81
for every l,C00 examined. The rejec-
tions in 1886 were 5l5 for every 1000 ex-
amined.
THE "work OF advertising San Anto-
q, 10 m hal ay "a q
the work to be undertaken. tits a work
OF encouragement to capital and manu-
featuring brains to come and settle here
and aid our local capital and brains IN
making the most OF their advantages. 1t
Is not merely to advertise our natural
advantages, but to put before the world
the willingness OF this city to assist in
building up all profitable industries, and
the direction that assistance will take.
To show, In a word, that San Antonio
will do as well as to declare what she Is.
AMERICAN sands are not the only
beaches upon which gaping fools do
COngregate. During the entire stay or
the empress of Austria at CrOmer, Eng
land. she was follow ed from hotel to
beach and from boat to bath by crowd
OF i'll hammered snObs, who invaded her
privacy at all times and compelled her
to shield herself within doors for hours,
when she would otherwise have been
taking the air. The English snob beats
creation.
The drOuth seems to have a spite at
this whole country. In the region OF
West Virginia, within and adjacent to
Mcdowell county, low water in the
streams, which are strongly impregnat-
ed with minerals, has caused an cpl
demic and the death rate is 333 per cent.
OF all who are taken sick. Over two
hundred deaths have occurred In Nc
Dowell county alone, and the we'll are
so busy taking care OF the sick that all
farm work is laid aside. 1t is nearly
four weeks since the disease first APP
peared.
The old knownothing party is to be
revived. The call for the national con-
vention assemblies that body at Phila-
delphia on the occasion Of the constitu-
tiOnal centennial next month. The
knownOthing party is too decidedly one
idead to be a successful exponent of po-
liticsl principles, but the one idea for
which it stands might be emphasized in
the minds of existing political parties
without any detrimeDt to American hon.
or at home or abroad. In doing this
work 1t may find its mission, but not as
a distinct party.